Matsonia

Man o man there is a lot of filler on this thing! The fiberglass that is there is only on the bottom of the hull and goes up less than an inch around the edge. The red paint comes off fairly easy, but the white is some tuff stuff. Im going to try 60 grit to see if it breaks up the white topcoat a little easer. It appears to have several coats of different colors of grey primer under the colored paint. The nose contour at the bottom is all filler.
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Bob

Man o man there is a lot of filler on this thing! The fiberglass that is there is only on the bottom of the hull and goes up less than an inch around the edge. The red paint comes off fairly easy, but the white is some tuff stuff. Im going to try 60 grit to see if it breaks up the white topcoat a little easer. It appears to have several coats of different colors of grey primer under the colored paint. The nose contour at the bottom is all filler.
continuing.
Bob

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Striping Matsonia

Well I am into the striping about 3 hours. (My shoulders aren't used to this crap ) I would consider the ship about half stripped. The more paint I take off this thing the more admiration I have for the builder. It is nicely built! The fiberglassing is just on the upper edges and around the bottom bow of the hull. The filler looks like plain old bondo. I hope I still have my 14" flat surface sander so I can get it flat when I get to that point. I did notice that the stuffing tubes are in different positions. I dont know if I am going to re-do them or not. It depends on how difficult they will be to remove. Removing them would make fiberglassing the hull much easier. I have put my sander down for the day and it is time for a couple #25"s AHHHHHHHHH!
Bob

Portholes

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Originally Posted by Browndog

Good luck finding those portholes if you put any filler on those sides better you than me.

Portholes go all the way through. They almost all have epoxy in them. On the back side there are plastic inserts that I am going to salvage and reuse. Prior to paint. I will be rebuilding them then covering the exterior with magic masker that will be removed after paint. Might be a little tedious but worth it, even if I have to drill a few out.
Bob